Aramaeans Zobah or Aram Zobah Hebrew or was the capital of an early Aramean state in southern Syria , at one time of considerable importance. In I Samuel xiv. 47, its king is supposed to have fought with Saul , but this has hitherto been unconfirmed. Its king, Hadadezer bar Rehob , allied with Ammon nation Ammon against David , who defeated Zobah and made the kingdom tributary to United Monarchy Israel II Samuel 10. . In this war, Arameans from across the Euphrates came to Hadadezer s aid II Sam. 16 5 . Upon the accession of Solomon , Zobah became independent of Israel compare I Kings xi. 23 et seq. . Berothai , a city belonging to Hadadezer II Sam. 8 8 is identified by many with Berothah Ezekiel xlvii. 16 , which was between Hamath and Damascus . Zobah was probably located near this city, though Joseph Hal vy claims to have identified Zobah with Chalcis, Syria Chalcis . On either view, the area in question would be found in the far south of Syria and parts of Lebanon. After the 10th century BCE , Zobah is not mentioned in the Bible , but the city of Subiti , which is mentioned in the annals of Assurbanipal as having been conquered by him in the seventh century BCE, is probably identical with it compare Schrader, K. B. ii. 217 . The same city is mentioned in some broken Cuneiform script cuneiform lists of towns in connection with Hamath and Damascus. From the 11th century it was common Rabbinic usage to apply the term Aram Zobah to the area of Aleppo , and this is perpetuated by Syrian Jews to this day.. See also Aleppo Codex References Schrader, K. B. ii. 121 et seq Franz Delitzsch Delitzsch , Wo Lag das Paradies? pp. 279 et seq. JewishEncyclopedia coord missing Syria Category Aramaean cities Category History of Syria Category Hebrew Bible places Category Former populated places in Syria AncientNearEast stub Syria hist stub he sh Zobah sv Aram Soba ... more details
orphan date May 2010 This place in ancient Israel See History of ancient Israel and Judah was apparently conquered by Solomon and thus figuring in his only military engagement alluded to in the Bible 2 Chr 8 3 . Its exact location is uncertain. Hamath and Zobah were likely adjoining kingdoms, whence the compound name Hamath Zobah , an idea supported by mention of wars between Hadadezer of Zobah and Tou Toi of Hamath in 2 Samuel 2 Samuel 9 10 . Category Hebrew Bible places Tanakh stub ... more details
Berothah or Berothai was a city in ancient Syria belonging to Hadadezer bar Rehob , king of Zobah in the early tenth century BCE. II Sam. viii. 8 It is identified by many scholars with the Berothah mentioned in Ezekiel xlvii. 16, which was between Hamath and Damascus . AncientNearEast stub Syria geo stub Syria hist stub Category Aramaean people Category History of Syria Category Hebrew Bible places ... more details
Aramaeans Aram Rehob was an early Aramaean kingdom, of which the chief city was Rehob or Beth Rehob, associated with Aram Zobah as hostile to King David . Book of Numbers Num. xiii.21 and Book of Judges Judges xviii.28 place a Beth Rehob in the Lebanon region near Tel Dan . Moore Commentary on Judges, p. 399 conjecturally identifies it with Paneas . References JewishEncyclopedia Category Aramaean states sh Aram Rehob sv Aram Beth Rehob ... more details
Rezon the Syrian was an enemy of King Solomon mentioned in 1 Kings . He was son of Eliada, and had previously deserted Hadadezer king of Zobah , presumably when the men of Damascus came to Hadadezer s aid. After Hadadezer s death Rezon became king in Damascus and, as Hadad the Edomite harried Israel s borders. ref 1 Kings 11 23 God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah. 24 And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus. 25 He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria. ref References reflist Category Hebrew Bible people ... more details
For the Tou tree, see Cordia subcordata . For the former Tou brewery, see Tou brewery . King Tou or Toi is the name of a king of Hama th, a city located in Syria . He is only mentioned in 2 Samuel 8 9 10 and Books of Chronicles 1 Chronicles 18 9 10. Biblical text KJV small font color 0000FF 9 font color small Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah small font color 0000FF 10 font color small He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him for Hadarezer had war with Tou and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass. Source s Bible, King James, 1 Chronicles Chapter 18 Wikisource Analysis The text tells that King David successfully defeated an enemy of Tou s, Hadadezer bar Rehob Hadarezer , the king of Zobah . To congratulate David and remind him that he was friendly to David , he sent his son Hadoram as an ambassador and with him a presumably large tribute, made mostly up of vessels of gold and silver and brass . David added them to the Temple treasury, after Dedication rededicating them. Category Hebrew Bible people es Tou ... more details
For the kings of Damascus of this name Hadadezer Unreferenced date December 2009 Hadadezer Hadad helps the son of Rehob Hebrew language Heb. Hadadezer ben Rehob Aramaic language Aram. Hadadezer bar Rehob was king of the Aramaean kingdom of Zobah during the early tenth century BCE. According to II Samuel , Hadadezer allied with the Ammon nation Ammonites against King David of Kingdom of Israel united monarchy Israel but was defeated. Hadadezer s kingdom may have dominated the Aramaean states after his defeat Damascus began its rise to prominence and states like Hamath sent grateful missives to David. DEFAULTSORT Hadadezer Bar Rehob Category Ancient Israel and Judah Category Aramaean people Category 10th century BC people pl Hadadezer kr l Soby sh Hadadezer bar Rehob sv Hadadeser ... more details
unreferenced date March 2008 Aramaeans The Syro Hittite states of the Early Iron Age were partly ruled by Aramaea n kings. Some of these kingdoms persisted into the 9th or 8th century BC before being absorbed into the Neo Assyrian Empire . Some royal names are found in the Hebrew Bible . kings of Aram Damascus Rezin Hezion Tabrimmon , son of Hezion Ben Hadad I , son of Tabrimmon Ben Hadad II Hadadezer , mentioned in the Tel Dan Stele may be identical to biblical Ben Hadad II. Hazael Ben Hadad III , son of Hazael Hadadezer bar Rehob , king of Zobah commonscat Aramaean Kings Category Aramaean people sv Lista ver arameiska kungar zh ... more details
Image Brazen Sea of soloman From Jewish Encyclopedia.jpg thumb an artist s rendition of the Molten Sea The Molten Sea or Brazen Sea lang he wikt cast metal Yamm sea was a large basin in the Temple in Jerusalem made by Solomon for Ritual washing in Judaism ablution of the priests. It is described in Bibleverse 1 Kings 7 23 26 and Bibleverse 2 Chronicles 4 2 5 . It stood in the south eastern corner of the inner court. According to the Bible it was five cubits high, ten cubits in diameter from brim to brim, and thirty cubits in circumference. It was placed on the backs of twelve oxen, standing with their faces outward. It was capable of containing two or three thousand baths of water. Though some think this impossible or unlikely based upon the stated dimensions ref http sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com topic 4413 ref , the fact that it was a wash basin which was too large to enter from above lends to the idea that water would likely have flowed from it down into a subcontainer beneath. Bibleverse 2 Chronicles 4 5 . The water was originally supplied by the Gibeonites , but was afterwards brought by a conduit from the pools of Bethlehem . The molten sea was made of brass copper , which Solomon had taken from the captured cities of Hadarezer , the king of Zobah Bibleverse 1 Chronicles 18 8 . Ahaz later removed this laver from the oxen, and placed it on a stone pavement Bibleverse 2 Kings 16 17 . It was destroyed by the Chaldeans Bibleverse 2 Kings 25 13 . In Rabbinical Literature The basin as contained water sufficient for 150 ritual baths mikvah . According to the Talmud the laver was not entirely round, as might be inferred from Scripture the upper two fifths were round but the lower three were square Talmud Eruvin 14a, b . The symbolism of the brazen sea is described in detail in the Midrash Tadshe . The sea represented the world the ten ells of diameter corresponded to the ten Sefirot and it was round at the top according to the Talmud passage above cited as t ... more details
Infobox given name name Nathan image NathanandDavid.JPG imagesize caption Nathan the Prophet advising king David pronunciation NAY th n gender Male meaning Given region origin Hebrew related names Jonathan name Jonathan Nathan is a masculine given name . It is derived from the Hebrew verb meaning to give standard Hebrew Natan , Yiddish Nussen or Nosson , Tiberian Hebrew N n . The meaning of the name in Jewish culture could be rendered he God has given or he will give . ref http www.abarim publications.com Meaning Nathan.html Meaning and etymology of the name Nathan , Abarim Publications ref The related name Elnathan could be rendered Gift of God . Four different people named Elnathan are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible one at bibleverse 2 Kings 24 8 HE , and three in bibleverse Ezra 8 15 20 HE . Similar ancient names are Nathaniel , with the same meaning as Elnathan, and Jonathan name Jonathan which signifies YHWH has given . Nathan can also be used as a nickname for Nathaniel . Familiar forms of Nathan used in English include Nat, Nath, Nate and Nathaniel. Hebrew Bible Nathan Prophet Nathan , a prophet who lived in the time of Kings David and Solomon Nathan son of David Nathan , son of David and his wife Bathsheba bibleverse 1 Chr 3 5 HE bibleref Luke 3 31 ESV In bibleverse 1 Kings 4 5 HE Nathan is the name of the father of Azariah and of the father of Zabad , two of Solomon s chief administrators. It is not clear whether both men had the same father In bibleverse 2 Samuel 23 36 HE Nathan from Zobah is listed as the father of Igal In bibleverse 1 Chronicles 2 36 HE another Nathan is listed as a descendant of Jerahmeel , of the tribe of Judah In bibleverse 1 Chronicles 11 38 HE yet another Nathan is the brother of Joel, one of David s elite warriors In bibleverse Ezra 8 15 16 HE Nathan is the name of one of Ezra s companions who are sent to Iddo prophet Iddo to ask for temple workers to replace the missing Levites In bibleverse Ezra 10 38 44 HE Nathan son of Bin ... more details
Carmelite Hezro the Carmelite Paarai the Arbite Naarai ben Ezbai Igal ben Nathan of Zobah Joel ahi ... north Beeroth , and who is the armour bearer of Joab Igal son of Nathan from Zobah , and who is the son ... more details
Jews and Judaism sidebar Syrian Jews derive their origin from two groups those who inhabited Syria from early times and the Sephardim who fled to Syria after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain 1492 AD . There were large communities in Aleppo , Damascus , and Qamishli for centuries. In the early twentieth century a large percentage of Syrian Jews emigrated to the U.S., Central and South America and Israel. Today only a few Jews still live in Syria. The largest Syrian Jewish community is located in Brooklyn, New York, and estimated at 75,000. History Second Temple period The tradition of the community ascribes its founding to the time of King David 1000 BC , whose general Joab occupied the area of Syria described in the Bible as Zobah Aram Zoba ref http jps.biblebrowser.com 2 samuel 10 1.htm 2 Samuel 10 ref this name is taken by later tradition as referring to Aleppo . Modern scholarship locates Aram Zoba in Lebanon and the far south of Syria the identification with Aleppo is not found in rabbinic literature prior to the 11th century. ref Zvi Zohar, Vayyibra Artscroll et Halab be tsalmo review of Sutton, Aleppo City of Scholars . ref Whether or not Jewish settlement goes back to a time as early as King David, both Aleppo and Damascus certainly had Jewish communities Early Christianity early in the Christian era . Post Second Temple Roman Syria In Roman times about 10,000 Jews lived at Damascus , governed by an ethnarch . ref http bible.cc acts 9 2.htm Acts 9 2 http bible.cc 2 corinthians 9 32 II Cor. 9 32 ref The attraction which Judaism exercised at that time over the pagans was so great that many men and women were converted to that religion. Paul of Tarsus succeeded, after a first rebuff, in converting many of the Jews of Damascus to Christianity 49 AD . This irritated the Jewish ethnarch to such a degree that he attempted to arrest Paul and the latter s friends only saved his life by lowering him in a basket out of a window built in the wall of the city. Many Je ... more details
federation of Aramaean tribes, known as Aram Zobah, based in the Beqaa Valley . ref name Burns10 The city would gain preeminence in southern Syria when Ezron, the claimant to Aram Zobah s throne who ... more details
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